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by nemo 12y ago
They have their reasons, but its hard for me to judge whether they're silly since they haven't made their legal analysis public or publicly explained why they've chosen the course they have.
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by nemo 12y ago
Apple has very steadily migrated away from using GPL. Every major release there are fewer and fewer GPL packages in their systems and they use old versions of tools to make sure they are still under GPLv2 - bash 3.2, rsync 2.6.9, etc, appa
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by nemo 12y ago
"Ignorance is a prerequisite for disagreement if you assume entirely rational decision-making." You'd also have to be profoundly naive to ever assume entirely rational decision-making out of humans, though I get the sense tha
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by nemo 12y ago
>it reads to me like them saying "we created this program to get women into things because they can't hack it any way else". While you might feel that way about it when you see it, it's neither the reason for nor the
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by nemo 12y ago
It was from Thomas Edison, so from long ago and far from an authority on animal sleeping habits. There are a vast number and variety in species of fish, some appear to do the unisphere thing, some actually go dormant and rest without swimm
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by nemo 12y ago
So in theory they might do something they were saying they wouldn't do or someone might some day do that thing. Sure, there is a remote possibility. You're talking about it as a certainty, though.
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by nemo 12y ago
What specific pricing details do you believe will be effected? The plan as proposed involved forebearance to avoid that.
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by nemo 12y ago
The FCC has made its share of mistakes, but that doesn't necessarily mean this will be one. "Title II regulation was designed for the plain-old-telephone-system monopolies, where there was even less choice (one provider!) than the
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by nemo 12y ago
Are you saying that it's scurrilous for the guy to fail to disclose accepting more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that in his papers on climate change (violating
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by nemo 12y ago
"From a business perspective what is the incentive for twitter to solve such a problem?" From a business perspective, being perceived as a platform for trolls and harassment is really bad for the brand - even if its a minority of
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by nemo 12y ago
I think the article didn't mention it since Twitter has released a number of changes since Dec. to work on improving handling of harassment with the streamlining of the block/report UI, higher prioritization of handling abusive&#x
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by nemo 12y ago
It starts on p. 15 of volume II, around 2/3s of the way into the pdf.
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by nemo 12y ago
Florian Cajori's A History of Mathematical Notations goes into the history and notes examples of old written manuscripts showing the intermediate form in use, with one example where both were used interchangeably in a letter. He exami
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by nemo 12y ago
The real answer is that you're assuming the wrong thing. Yes, networks are complex and require skilled techs to keep running, but that's completely irrelevant to the F.C.C. classifying Internet access under Title II. ISPs will no
555.
by nemo 12y ago
The power grid is not simple. It's a highly complex system that requires constant monitoring and adjustment by power companies to ensure consistent delivery that's not much different than what an ISP should be doing. A bad circui
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by nemo 12y ago
Yeah, something like Perl++, Perl 10/Perl X, or something that indicted the scope of the difference in the rewrite would have been nice, though I think it's too late at this point. Ten years ago it would have helped, now 'Pe
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by nemo 12y ago
Good on them, really hope they make the release.
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by nemo 12y ago
>Apple didn't give Xerox $1 million in shares, they gave Xerox the opportunity to buy $1 million in stock, which Xerox did. Well, yeah, it was an offer of 100,000 shares of pre-IPO stock for $1 million that wound up being worth $16
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by nemo 12y ago
The key difference is that Apple gave Xerox $1 million in shares as a payment for them to demo the Alto to Apple engineers with the understanding that they'd implement the ideas in Lisa/Mac.
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by nemo 12y ago
I am not into most sports, and know nothing about football/basketball/baseball but somehow can manage to make conversation with whoever. It's not like the general populace is monomaniacally obsessed with sports to the point
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by nemo 12y ago
Well, I found it equally fascinating and horrifying. You don't need to agree with or admire an author to be able to learn things from their writing.
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by nemo 12y ago
You are blaming the victim for having his rights violated. Thinking, "of course he shouldn't have had a flash card with the word 'bomb' on it, if you do that you'll have your rights violated" is blaming the wr
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by nemo 12y ago
There's no legal requirement I know to show the warrant prior to seizure of material evidence based on a warrant. Do you know of any relevant case law that says otherwise?
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by nemo 12y ago
"the far left" While some of his defenders are on the left, some are right-wing libertarians, and I don't think it's really reasonable to make shallow politicized generalizations about who his supporters are. For the re
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by nemo 12y ago
They had a warrant. It wan't technically stealing since they were legally authorized by a judge to take the property in as evidence.
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by nemo 12y ago
Hand-waving and dismissing something as a confused non-question isn't an explanation. People who can't handle the state of uncertainty are attracted to it, because its uncomfortable to find your premises aren't grounded in c
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by nemo 12y ago
"Certainly you're not familiar with Northern Ireland." Someone clearly is unfamiliar, though I think you should by pointing to yourself rather than others.
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by nemo 12y ago
Opposition to abortion, while virtually always misguided, isn't theocracy.
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by nemo 12y ago
Why do you assume the nun is a theocrat? Religion is still fairly strong in peaceful secular states and hasn't dragged them into hellholes. That some religious fundamentalists hold odious beliefs doesn't mean that the nun who wr
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by nemo 12y ago
I am pretty sure they were mentioning that in the sense that North Korea has a full blown cult of personality around their leader (who is an unelected life-long dictator). You'll note that there isn't a giant statue of Obama on th

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